From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 10:39:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06933 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06922 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA21990; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:38:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:38:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: austin@wil.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux In-Reply-To: <331C3F60.201D@wil.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 austin@wil.net wrote: > What are the adavantages of using FreeBSD vs Linux? Lots. Primarily stability and integration of distribution -- there is one and only one, and when you say you have 2.1.7-RELEASE, everyone knows what you're talking about. No more "I'm on libc ver x and kernel ver y, why doesn't z work?". This is a touchy issue, so I'll refer you to the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org (under 'Search') for the range of opinions. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major